Coronavirus: Screening

(asked on 1st September 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many covid-19 public testing sites are operating in England; and how many of those sites are (a) walk in and (b) drive in sites.


Answered by
Helen Whately Portrait
Helen Whately
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 9th November 2020

The Government has put in place the largest network of diagnostic testing facilities created in British history, including, as of 2 September:

- 72 drive-through sites;

- 53 walk-through sites;

- 21 satellite test sites;

- 236 mobile testing units, home testing and satellite kits; and

- Five lighthouse laboratories.

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